I have a laptop with a VGA port and HDMI port and I have a VGA screen and a HDMI screen connected to the laptop but it can only extend with one screen and not two. Wih is kinda BAD because I just bought a NEW HDMI screen and now I can do what I wanted to. So please is there a way that I can have three screen in total???
Please help me, and thanks in advanced.
i think the issue is that the VGA is analogue and the HDMI is digital.
You should have a DVI port on the card.
Do you have a DVI cable?
Do you have a DVI port on your VGA monitor?
If you dont have a DVI port on the monitor, you can still use a DVI-VGA converter. This will be DVI going out, but will still convert to analogue VGA for you VGA port Monitor.
The card GTS 250 has issues with this on using both Analogue and Digital outputs at the same time.
would help if you told us the make and model number of the laptop.
It could be a limitation of the laptop.
I think this is a limitation of his graphics card. I posted in his other thread concerning the same matter : https://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/8...nt-please.html
Okay sorry mate, it is a Lenovo N500 mate and a philips 23'6 inch screen(HDMI) and a acer screen, the Lenovo show all the screens but I cant show all three at the same time because when I say extend it only uses one screen and not both so how can I let the one screen extend to the left and the other one to the right and the laptop in the middle
this is for the laptop mate, the screens works perfectly but I can't get it to show all three at one time. How can i do that?
Ah I am sorry. My laptop has a VGA and HDMI too, but I dont use both at once. it has a GTX 260M.... I thought you had a laptop graphics card. I will test when I can for my lappy. What kind of graphics do you have?
I will post in other thread too.
Ah I am sorry. My laptop has a VGA and HDMI too, but I dont use both at once. it has a GTX 260M.... I thought you had a laptop graphics card. I will test when I can for my lappy. What kind of graphics do you have?
NOTE: Can you close the other thread (report it as a duplicate). We will post in this one to find a cure.
The short and simple answer is you can't. At best the video card on your laptop will have two RAMDAC's on it,
RAMDAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
one will be for the laptop screen and most likely the VGA port, with the other being for the HDMI port only (could also be one for the laptop screen and the other for the VGA and HDMI port). Each RAMDAC while capable of supporting two outputs, they can only use one of them at a time. That is why you can't get all three to work at once.
At the moment the only way to get more than 2 displays at a time with a single video card is the ATI HD 5xxx series of cards that have Eyefinity. Not sure if there are any available for laptops yet, but even if they were it would require a new laptop as it isn't like a desktop where you can just change the card.
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